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bushel full men who called this crisis and their prophecy for america coming up. we name the twelve bankers who seized the bailout exposed the burning me still on the run and revealed the piper luring america into ruin. the wicked witch of the east symbol of east coast because roaming america in a fever did it again and again wall street lenders have failed every generation time off the time off the time. the bankers have been at the root of problems throughout the twentieth and twenty first century very much implicated in nazi buildup that continued even after world war two started it's an unknown piece of american history in the united states money has gone out of productive investments and is involved in trying to live investments and leveraged buyouts and things that produce nothing real useful in this. time to put them out there misery says one of the world's most sought economists i sat down with nobel laureate ed prescott says he now i'm not sure why even when even the banks what's in the fractional reserve sounds i get scared with the new i told the washin
bushel full men who called this crisis and their prophecy for america coming up. we name the twelve bankers who seized the bailout exposed the burning me still on the run and revealed the piper luring america into ruin. the wicked witch of the east symbol of east coast because roaming america in a fever did it again and again wall street lenders have failed every generation time off the time off the time. the bankers have been at the root of problems throughout the twentieth and twenty first...
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made in america. the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes being black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the bergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worst the better that can do nine hundred eighty bearings work was a burgeoning mining community. and was determined to maintain at all costs to a degree located halfway between north america and western europe the bergen archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the us is ours westernmost outpost now it's one of the last preserved relics. picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades curious for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travellers the local administration is increasingly under pressure t
made in america. the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes being black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the bergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worst the better that can do nine hundred eighty bearings work was a burgeoning mining community. and was determined to maintain at all costs to a degree located halfway...
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after 11 months, he was ready to return to america. he had gone to france as an illustrator, but he came home determined to be an artist. through his friends, homer was probably also introduced to the work of barbizon painters and other contemporary french artists, such as manet, whose work, in all likelihood, homer would have sought out while in paris. after his return from france, homer's subjects and the style of his work make clear he absorbed something from french art. return of the gleaner is strongly reminiscent of millet's well-known paintings. the lighter palette and two-dimensional design of homer's work at this point suggest that he may have seen manet's paintings with their strong light and flat patterns. homer's oil paintings of domestic american scenes called forth his deeper creative energies, but magazine illustrations of the same everyday activities provided his livelihood. the carefree quality of these scenes appealed to a country recovering from the civil war. americans turned to lighter concerns-- exalting the innoc
after 11 months, he was ready to return to america. he had gone to france as an illustrator, but he came home determined to be an artist. through his friends, homer was probably also introduced to the work of barbizon painters and other contemporary french artists, such as manet, whose work, in all likelihood, homer would have sought out while in paris. after his return from france, homer's subjects and the style of his work make clear he absorbed something from french art. return of the...
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-- 4.1% in america, falling behind in the global race, mr. speaker. [cheers and applause] and what we learned today is that growth has been downgraded this year, next year, the year after, the year after and the year or after that too. mr. speaker, the longest double-dip recession since the second world war now followed by the slowest recovery in the last hundred years. and we were told that this stagnation, rising long-term unemployment, long-term damage to our economy, falling behind now as other countries move ahead is the chancellor's fiscal strategy has been complete ri derail -- complete hi derailed, mr. speaker. the defining purpose of a government, the -- [inaudible] the one test they set themselves to balance the books and get the debt falling by 2015 is now in tatters, mr. speaker. what we've learned today is that borrowing, that government borrowing has been revised up this year, next year and the year after that. we now know, we now know that compared to the chancellor's forecast two years ago, borrowing is now forecast to be well
-- 4.1% in america, falling behind in the global race, mr. speaker. [cheers and applause] and what we learned today is that growth has been downgraded this year, next year, the year after, the year after and the year or after that too. mr. speaker, the longest double-dip recession since the second world war now followed by the slowest recovery in the last hundred years. and we were told that this stagnation, rising long-term unemployment, long-term damage to our economy, falling behind now as...
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as we head on into the americas, it's going to be another wet day for you along the west coast from b.c. down through northern california. you've hood had a bit of a break. another round of rain coming in. and some very strong winds here, too. not much changed since last week. another low moving here through eastern canada. that will bring maybe 30 centimeters of snow to northern ontario as well as quebec. blowing and drifting snow here, too, so, again, difficult driving conditions. along the cold front, it's not going to be too severe. you'll see a few thunderstorms in that rain, but certainly temperatures will be falling as the front passes. that said, though, we're seeing some unseasonably warm temperatures across the east at the moment. chicago, 19 degrees. 24 in oklahoma city. 19 for you in d.c. with 16 in new york city. all right. let's go now to europe. a very messy picture here. the western locations are starting to see a low and frontal system moving through. that's going to be producing plenty of precipitation. and a lot of it is going to be snow here, as well. the same goes f
as we head on into the americas, it's going to be another wet day for you along the west coast from b.c. down through northern california. you've hood had a bit of a break. another round of rain coming in. and some very strong winds here, too. not much changed since last week. another low moving here through eastern canada. that will bring maybe 30 centimeters of snow to northern ontario as well as quebec. blowing and drifting snow here, too, so, again, difficult driving conditions. along the...
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learned over the last number of years would suggest that america in many ways undermines the idea of united europe because a united europe potentially a number of years will be a stronger economic unit than the united states when we'll see what you think about that because the outlook isn't good the economic reality you're going to raise from here i know a lot of them is their borders of europe they are throughout the world i mean you have recessions internationally so i don't think we should focus on the situation in europe and say oh it's all doom and gloom or i'm actually very very hopeful of a bright future a strong economic europe. ok we're going to greenwood on that one there are gentlemen going to go to waste your way to go to a short break and after that show broke we'll continue our discussion on separatism today with our. can if you. will of the. science technology innovation hall the list of melon mints from around russia we've got the future covered. secret laboratory tim curry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about an
learned over the last number of years would suggest that america in many ways undermines the idea of united europe because a united europe potentially a number of years will be a stronger economic unit than the united states when we'll see what you think about that because the outlook isn't good the economic reality you're going to raise from here i know a lot of them is their borders of europe they are throughout the world i mean you have recessions internationally so i don't think we should...
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to get politicians in washington to stop squabbling and come up with a compromise that will help put america's fiscal house in order. >> are both parties determined to go over the fiscal cliff together? let's bring in our washington correspondent for more on this. what can you tell us about the meeting coming up in less than an hour? what will the president talking about with the republican leadership? >> there are only six people who really know what is going on, and what will really happen at the white house, and they will not talk, but i expect them to talk about higher taxes for the wealthy. are the republicans willing to accept that? they will also talk about entitlement spending cuts. are the democrats willing to accept that the government will spend less money? if this is the case, then they might find common ground. one important issue, of course, is going to be the members of the tea party. they are saying compromise is a bad word. of course, it will be difficult for them to find a compromise, to bring them into the boat. >> we had the meeting today. we have the special session on sun
to get politicians in washington to stop squabbling and come up with a compromise that will help put america's fiscal house in order. >> are both parties determined to go over the fiscal cliff together? let's bring in our washington correspondent for more on this. what can you tell us about the meeting coming up in less than an hour? what will the president talking about with the republican leadership? >> there are only six people who really know what is going on, and what will...
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america has supported every single dictator we've ever had. i imagine when we have our next one, they'll continue to support him too. there is, you know, the sense that we are a country that on foreign power, survives, and richard drops in every couple weeks, every couple months to see how we're doing. we allow him that, and that's because of great shame, and, you know, mr. holbrooke, who i count as one of my many cosmic enemies -- [laughter] >> really? >> many. david miliband is another. i'm biting my nails over sanity, but so, came into pakistan to push for the lugar bill to give $7 billion to pakistan over five years for development aide, and the conditions are completely repugnant, and we have to open up everything to receive this money, and richard holbrooke came in and said those against the lugar bill are against democracy in pakistan. that's rich. >> yes, down in front. microphone, two seconds to get to you. >> thank you for your presentation. fascinating. this is a little bit off the subject, but i wonder if you followed the case and
america has supported every single dictator we've ever had. i imagine when we have our next one, they'll continue to support him too. there is, you know, the sense that we are a country that on foreign power, survives, and richard drops in every couple weeks, every couple months to see how we're doing. we allow him that, and that's because of great shame, and, you know, mr. holbrooke, who i count as one of my many cosmic enemies -- [laughter] >> really? >> many. david miliband is...
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learned over the last number of years would suggest that america in many ways undermines the idea of united europe because a united europe potentially a number of years will be a stronger economic unit than the united states when we'll see what you think about that because the outlook isn't good the economic reality you're going to raise from here i know a lot of them is their borders of europe they are throughout the world i mean you have recessions internationally so i don't think we should focus on the situation in europe and say oh it's all doom and gloom i'm actually very very hopeful of a bright future a strong economic europe. ok we're going to greenwood on that one there i'd gentleman we're going to go to a story go to a short break and after that show break we'll continue our discussion on separatism stay with our. education system. and. wealthy british. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike skies or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. choose your language. weekend with the if to. cho
learned over the last number of years would suggest that america in many ways undermines the idea of united europe because a united europe potentially a number of years will be a stronger economic unit than the united states when we'll see what you think about that because the outlook isn't good the economic reality you're going to raise from here i know a lot of them is their borders of europe they are throughout the world i mean you have recessions internationally so i don't think we should...
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we are famous in america for that. thee aratio of one executive ge to an average worker is 300 to 40s all other countries. so we have been in a major part of the ineq0 lity that i talked about before that has grown up in 30 years comes out of the decisions made in the boardroom with the boards of directors and mothor shareholders about the profits. if the workers themseffeces distributed the profits collectively, would they give poor people $4s every body else says not enough? unlikely. the biggest, best way to undo the inequality of wealth in the united states would be to reorganize a decision about how profits of corporations are distributed. if you are serious about doing something about inequality, here's a good way to start. i could gone and as you can see i enjoy the process but i won't. a place that has been doing that, just so you all know, a small pe when i make this argument i sometimes get skeptics whoe arae their hands, that is all righy we all know about -- run this way for those not aware of it, also true
we are famous in america for that. thee aratio of one executive ge to an average worker is 300 to 40s all other countries. so we have been in a major part of the ineq0 lity that i talked about before that has grown up in 30 years comes out of the decisions made in the boardroom with the boards of directors and mothor shareholders about the profits. if the workers themseffeces distributed the profits collectively, would they give poor people $4s every body else says not enough? unlikely. the...
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i don't think america is satisfied with the united europe and i mean i think the various lessons we have learned over the last number of years would suggest that america in many ways undermines the idea of united europe because a united europe potentially a number of years will be a stronger economic unit than the united states when we'll see what you think about that because the outlook isn't good the economic reality you're going to be raising here are not going to diminish their corners of europe they are throughout the world i mean you have recessions internationally so i don't think we should focus on the situation in europe and say oh it's all doom and gloom i'm actually very very hopeful of a bright future a strong economic europe. ok we're going to greenwood on that one there are gentlemen going to go to a story to go to a short break and after that show break we'll continue our discussion on separatism stay with our you. can. choose your language kelly mcevers knowing if. someone. chooses that the consensus can. choose the opinions that you think are great to. choose the st
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needs to get back on the right track also corporate america has messed with the wrong people facing salary cuts port workers in the east coast are threatening to strike to get him to impact the economy to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars right about why this strike in particular is so important and how if it's successful it could bring about a future of leisure society for working americans plus it's been less than two years but a new government in japan is already forgotten all the lessons learned from the fukushima nuclear crisis as millions of tons of radioactive debris drifts at this moment for the united states is west coast i know what the japanese government is now doing if you put the entire world in danger and later in the show we'll have your take my take a live segment your chance to call in and ask a question share your thoughts live on the air. you need to know this president obama is back in washington d.c. senators back in washington d.c. the speaker john boehner and the rest of the republicans in the house are still on vacation here is democratic senate ma
needs to get back on the right track also corporate america has messed with the wrong people facing salary cuts port workers in the east coast are threatening to strike to get him to impact the economy to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars right about why this strike in particular is so important and how if it's successful it could bring about a future of leisure society for working americans plus it's been less than two years but a new government in japan is already forgotten all the...
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america or our web site r t dot com slash usa and you can of course follow me on twitter i'm at christine for. the issues that so much as i was about to say the was a listen to a real and it was separate but more and more europeans are rethinking the pillars of the modern nation state there is wide agreement to the sovereignty of states must. mission free. education free storage priests free. priests. priests the old see blog live video for your media project a free media dog hearty dog tom. cole . love. any. following welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle separate but equal more and more europeans are rethinking the pillars of the modern nation state there is wide agreement that the sovereignty of states must be respected but what about the growing issue of self-determination if a population wants to create their own state why should. he. started. to cross out the modern nation state i'm joined by christian winning in berlin he is the secretary general of the union of european federalists in belfast we have anthony where sato he is a political commentator and former irish political act
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it is in spain after wars there's no jobs so the solution for them is to immigrate to south america over here you know any in europe is more complicated you have parts of germany which have some of the best standard of living anywhere in the world you have northeastern italy for instance which has a tradition of small and two premierships you go to a small. construction area. making clothes in gucci style in florence or making food in bali and export all over the world but it is they've been doing that for a thousand years or so and then you compare it to rome maples in southern italy it's a total disgrace day themselves and say that they live in africa and in fact so this is the problem is the inequality inside the western capitalist system and this inequality is being reproduced by the chinese most of the time i am between those americas north and south europe and china whenever i travel inside china i see the same mistakes they are committing that the west has been committing for the past twenty years and it's basically to apply new liberalism to china alexander you clarkie disagree g
it is in spain after wars there's no jobs so the solution for them is to immigrate to south america over here you know any in europe is more complicated you have parts of germany which have some of the best standard of living anywhere in the world you have northeastern italy for instance which has a tradition of small and two premierships you go to a small. construction area. making clothes in gucci style in florence or making food in bali and export all over the world but it is they've been...
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this country uses violence when it reaches its and then it legitimizes the violence they are made in america on the oxy. kona welcome to a business see a large loop oil has been discovered in greece's tax system embezzled money amounts to twenty eight billion euros per year that's equal to fifteen percent of the troubled economies g.d.p. now the international monetary fund is blaming businessmen government officials and even actors for neglecting to pay what they owe the country but apparently the fund believes it is impossible to return all of that money and suggests a write down fifty percent of it now while also adopting a law to automate the system deducting the from the embezzlers a bank account. of what's happening on the markets which we actually managed to show a bit earlier in the program or two steps forward one step back for russia is the ruble it has lost around three quarters of monday's gains versus both the dollar and the euro now on the russian stock markets it seems indeed not a creature was stirring not even a mouse as i said before russia traditionally celebrates christmas
this country uses violence when it reaches its and then it legitimizes the violence they are made in america on the oxy. kona welcome to a business see a large loop oil has been discovered in greece's tax system embezzled money amounts to twenty eight billion euros per year that's equal to fifteen percent of the troubled economies g.d.p. now the international monetary fund is blaming businessmen government officials and even actors for neglecting to pay what they owe the country but apparently...
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this country uses violence when it reaches and it legitimatizes the balance they are made in america on the t.v. . i never thought i could earn a living this way. should test small arms so those photos to russian building client natalee also lost count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years but i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of shooting. the plant's history goes from making firearms during world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans so if you were also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for half a century it thrived on the message of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the fuel truck factory russia's number one truck maker look at how well the workplace is organized everything's gone to make sure the workers don't waste time waitin
this country uses violence when it reaches and it legitimatizes the balance they are made in america on the t.v. . i never thought i could earn a living this way. should test small arms so those photos to russian building client natalee also lost count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years but i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of shooting. the plant's history goes from making firearms during world...
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and america's mounting debts and questions over its foreign policies spark a growing movement in different states to see from the. new song russia and around the world this is the with me thanks for joining is the first face to face peace talks between the colombian government and the fork rebels are set to resume on wednesday to try and earned five decades of conflicts and ahead of the fresh talks all she's punished language channel talked exclusively to negotiate a tiny main name air in the first t.v. interview since the talks began last month. kiran how enough are gravel some colombian officials are holding talks trying to hammer out a peace deal letting america's fiercest drive also and their first attempt to put an end to the fifty year old conflict this has claimed more than half a million lives and the sole woman at the negotiating table is dutch fighter and yet she left her alone to join fired ten years ago to fight what she calls social justice and has become a symbol of their revolution struggle then a spoke exclusively to our t.v. in the fields t.v. interview she in the new talk
and america's mounting debts and questions over its foreign policies spark a growing movement in different states to see from the. new song russia and around the world this is the with me thanks for joining is the first face to face peace talks between the colombian government and the fork rebels are set to resume on wednesday to try and earned five decades of conflicts and ahead of the fresh talks all she's punished language channel talked exclusively to negotiate a tiny main name air in the...
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are located halfway between north america and western europe in archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of sars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union's last preserved relics. it is essentially a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union. if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local server near shops so between my bill it is a big hit the defunct are incurred still helps keep the money flowing guys it's a reference to your words you can't put a. link there on the ground you are the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like. it should s
are located halfway between north america and western europe in archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of sars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union's last preserved relics. it is essentially a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union. if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i...
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the so-called fiscal cliff, the punishing combination of higher taxes on just about every worker in america and deep spending cuts particularly to our military. top lawmakers are calling in staff members for meetings on this saturday. right now we are told senate leaders are working on a potential deal. still our journalists on the hill are being told there will be no official proposals or votes until tomorrow at the very earliest. the time line qoo -- could not be tighter. we will begin seeing lower tax rates expiring and federal aid for things like unemployment checks. here is a statistic for you. if there is no deal in place for january 1st, those benefits, those unemployment benefits will no longer be authorized. the law project estimates some two million americans will stop receiving benefits after december 29th. that's today. many experts fear going over the cliff could send our weak economy plunging back into a recession. president obama says he remains optimistic, but he says no bargain could be reached in congress, then congress must vote on his back up plan to block taxes for anyb
the so-called fiscal cliff, the punishing combination of higher taxes on just about every worker in america and deep spending cuts particularly to our military. top lawmakers are calling in staff members for meetings on this saturday. right now we are told senate leaders are working on a potential deal. still our journalists on the hill are being told there will be no official proposals or votes until tomorrow at the very earliest. the time line qoo -- could not be tighter. we will begin seeing...
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in both europe and america -- with eugenics. in america a group was led by such people as margaret sanger, whose journal, the birth control review, endorsed her friends book, quote, the title is the rising tide of color, against white world supremacy. her into this negro project use black ministers, including adam clayton powell to promote birth control. but the effort in england, germany and the united states to melt public health and eugenics rampart deeper. rather, they found their way into international and state policy with support from groups such as the national committee for mental hygiene, urging sterilization as a newcomer to quote prevent this class of persons from propagating, unquote. germany use venereal disease law to enlist doctors, greatly extending the power of the state into the private sphere kind producing a union with a medical profession that would be preferred rather easily in the third reich. in germany, one expert observe quote the more scientific a doctor's outlook was, the more politically naÏve he w
in both europe and america -- with eugenics. in america a group was led by such people as margaret sanger, whose journal, the birth control review, endorsed her friends book, quote, the title is the rising tide of color, against white world supremacy. her into this negro project use black ministers, including adam clayton powell to promote birth control. but the effort in england, germany and the united states to melt public health and eugenics rampart deeper. rather, they found their way into...
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the west bank as indeed it was forced to from gaza a few years back follow a quick thought about what america might do next the americans of course backed israel during its recent offensive on gaza but with prime minister netanyahu bent or more settle in washington support stop the way you think. i think the washington support will weigh in very quickly obama has been reelected on the reelected president into a second at his most powerful and i think yes and you know who might do well to remember that he also very much involved himself in the internal politics the usa during the election campaign that can't even do it himself very much the administration the movement around the world for palestine for the palestinian people is unprecedented netanyahu should wake up and recognise that you can't be gerry corbin thank you for your thoughts on r.t. . russia and turkey arriving to boost the trade turnover to over one hundred billion dollars a year just one of the big business announcements made during president putin's visit to istanbul but the two countries remain at loggerheads over how to solve
the west bank as indeed it was forced to from gaza a few years back follow a quick thought about what america might do next the americans of course backed israel during its recent offensive on gaza but with prime minister netanyahu bent or more settle in washington support stop the way you think. i think the washington support will weigh in very quickly obama has been reelected on the reelected president into a second at his most powerful and i think yes and you know who might do well to...
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the so-called fiscal cliff, the punishing combination of higher taxes on just about every worker in america and deep spending cuts particularly to our military. top lawmakers are calling in staff members for meetings on this saturday. right now we are told senate leaders are working on a potential deal. still our journalists on the hill are being told there will be no official proposals or votes until tomorrow at the very earliest. the time line qoo -- could not be tighter. we will begin seeing lower tax rates expiring and federal aid for things like unemployment checks. here is a statistic for you. if there is no deal in place for january 1st, those benefits, those unemployment benefits will no longer be authorized. the law project estimates some two million americans will stop receiving benefits after december 29th. that's today. many experts fear going over the cliff could send our weak economy plunging back into a recession. president obama says he remains optimistic, but he says no bargain could be reached in congress, then congress must vote on his back up plan to block taxes for anyb
the so-called fiscal cliff, the punishing combination of higher taxes on just about every worker in america and deep spending cuts particularly to our military. top lawmakers are calling in staff members for meetings on this saturday. right now we are told senate leaders are working on a potential deal. still our journalists on the hill are being told there will be no official proposals or votes until tomorrow at the very earliest. the time line qoo -- could not be tighter. we will begin seeing...
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merchants forced parliament to repeal the townsend act to restore trade with america. unfortunately, parliament acted too slowly to avoid the famed boston massacre. the presence of troops in boston streets had the population that unruly elements turned the red coat soldiers into targets, first of insults, then snowballs, then stones, and other missiles. a troop of red coats retaliated and fired rifles into a threatening mob one night, killing five civilians, all of them who turned out to be sam adams' thugs from the water front. nonetheless, it threatened to become a city wide riot, and to prevent a real civil war there, governor thomas hutchenson immediately ordered the officer and the soldiers involved in the incident jailed and brought to trial for murder. defending them were none other than the respected american lawyers, joe -- josiah and quincy. they were not tories, but local farmers. they voted unanimously to acquit the officer and four of the soldiers. they found the other two soldiers guilty of justifiable manslaughter, a little more than a misdemeanor. just
merchants forced parliament to repeal the townsend act to restore trade with america. unfortunately, parliament acted too slowly to avoid the famed boston massacre. the presence of troops in boston streets had the population that unruly elements turned the red coat soldiers into targets, first of insults, then snowballs, then stones, and other missiles. a troop of red coats retaliated and fired rifles into a threatening mob one night, killing five civilians, all of them who turned out to be sam...
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drone strikes america's reluctant. to carry responsibility for the damage cause that's what we've been talking about a lot with this new spike that will bring any more accountability with a lot of the get even with us well it isn't theory would be if you had better spies on the ground you would have better intelligence driving those drone strikes i think it's heavily needed one of the criticisms that right here on our team before is that they're launching drone strikes as little as forty percent accuracy information when i was doing it you had to have eighty percent or better so the definition of the standard for an attack is i think rightly enhanced that the probability of striking the wrong target and thereby killing innocents which i think should be one of the things we always we should always take the high ground of the horse said with that said the expansion at this time really again one by one little leads one to wonder why are we doing it now based on the fact we are cutting back in some areas we are expanding t
drone strikes america's reluctant. to carry responsibility for the damage cause that's what we've been talking about a lot with this new spike that will bring any more accountability with a lot of the get even with us well it isn't theory would be if you had better spies on the ground you would have better intelligence driving those drone strikes i think it's heavily needed one of the criticisms that right here on our team before is that they're launching drone strikes as little as forty...
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america reelected barack obama to get the economy moving. history will judge him as a good president or not if he's able to get the economy moving. but i want to point one thing out tos a i've said before, this is the new barack obama 2.0. he's taking his he is message to the american people. he will not sit around and let the republicans litigate and relitigate things or let the chattering class of washington determine his destiny. he'll rally support and put the pressure on all of congress, not just the republicans, but democrats, as well. >> is that the freedom that a second term president gets, right? >> well, it's the freedom when you try to work with the republicans and frankly some of the democrats, as well. you can't blame all the republicans. some of the democrats didn't want to move on the entitlement issues and they'll have to move. so this is obama 2.0. a much more engaged, a much more activist president. you series bringing a business community in, community leaders, small business, not for profit. he'll be much more engaged in
america reelected barack obama to get the economy moving. history will judge him as a good president or not if he's able to get the economy moving. but i want to point one thing out tos a i've said before, this is the new barack obama 2.0. he's taking his he is message to the american people. he will not sit around and let the republicans litigate and relitigate things or let the chattering class of washington determine his destiny. he'll rally support and put the pressure on all of congress,...
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ration through workers' rights evisceration through the vilification of workers and labor in america to get to the point where we have chinese slave wages in america yes that's what we needed to do thank you now we have a prison state that's growing by leaps and bounds and prison labor for the same out there making over in china fantastic so kevin nolan the vice president of technology found that the jews spring suffered from advanced technology version of ikea syndrome it was so hard to assemble that no one in the big room wanted to make it instead they redesigned it the team eliminated one out of every five parts it cut the cost of the materials by twenty five percent so they point out that a funny thing happened to geo spring on the way from the cheap chinese factory to the expensive kentucky factory the material cost went down the labor required to make it went down the quality went up even the energy efficiency went out you know they had designed this product in the united states for years and they sent the product design to china but what they found was that you know in the beg
ration through workers' rights evisceration through the vilification of workers and labor in america to get to the point where we have chinese slave wages in america yes that's what we needed to do thank you now we have a prison state that's growing by leaps and bounds and prison labor for the same out there making over in china fantastic so kevin nolan the vice president of technology found that the jews spring suffered from advanced technology version of ikea syndrome it was so hard to...
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so america wanted its own silk industry. skinner used to say there's not an irish servant girl who comes over to this country whose ambition is not to wear a silk dress. everyone wanted silk. so skinner came to this country with the knowledge that americans didn't have, and he became a pioneer in the american silk industry. he helped establish it, he became a founding member of the american silk association, and he parlayed that one skill -- how to dye silk -- into opportunity after opportunity to the point where he had his own silk mill. and it was so prosperous that an entire village had grown up around it. this poor kid from east london had literally put his name on the american map. now, in order to write my book, i had to recreate skinnerville, because with it disappeared after the flood. and here, again, is a map of skinnerville from 1873. oh, okay. i do need to go back. i'm not sure quite how to do that. um, well, okay. we can leave this here. so i have had to recreate skinnerville. how do you do that? looking through
so america wanted its own silk industry. skinner used to say there's not an irish servant girl who comes over to this country whose ambition is not to wear a silk dress. everyone wanted silk. so skinner came to this country with the knowledge that americans didn't have, and he became a pioneer in the american silk industry. he helped establish it, he became a founding member of the american silk association, and he parlayed that one skill -- how to dye silk -- into opportunity after opportunity...
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ialization ofanc america. the huge mess of the money assembled by the financial sector and a very financialized group of people in the corporations did something else. if anything, of course, it has just gotten worse. >> in 1995, you did "arrogant capital, washington, wall street and the frustration of american politics." anything that comes to mind in particular when you look back on at? >> there are two types of arrogant capital in the united states. arrogant capital wall street and arrogant capital washington, d.c. >> "staying on top, the case for industrial strategy," "cause conservative america." >> the idea there was that you were not looking a traditional conservative under the reagan administration. i remember the howard jarvis tax revolution. you had a whole sequence of sort of radical conservatives. also, obviously, the beginnings of the religious right in the south. this was not a traditional conservatism. and so there is my post- conservatism argument. >> >> that was more the politics of the rich a
ialization ofanc america. the huge mess of the money assembled by the financial sector and a very financialized group of people in the corporations did something else. if anything, of course, it has just gotten worse. >> in 1995, you did "arrogant capital, washington, wall street and the frustration of american politics." anything that comes to mind in particular when you look back on at? >> there are two types of arrogant capital in the united states. arrogant capital...
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bottom line, whatever happens in the next few days, markets, corporate america and consumers in america are probably going to have to deal with continued fiscal wrangling' in washington for weeks and weeks and weeks. >> we're going to talk more about the fiscal cliff and later on in the show. just coming back to europe for a second or touching on europe -- >> even more boring. >> because i'm quite looking forward to next year and i'm looking forward to hoping that we're not going to be sitting on politicians the same way we have over the last year, two years, looking at every single line that comes out of therefore mouths. i'm hoping we're going to see march of a sense of normality coming back into the european trades. >> as mohamed el-erian said, it's the new normal. nothing is going to happen next year in all probability. there will be the italian electrics. if berlusconi starts to poll better in a run up to the italian elections, which i think will happen, then you're likely to see bonds markets reacting a little bit to that. that could cause problems in the spanish and italian yield
bottom line, whatever happens in the next few days, markets, corporate america and consumers in america are probably going to have to deal with continued fiscal wrangling' in washington for weeks and weeks and weeks. >> we're going to talk more about the fiscal cliff and later on in the show. just coming back to europe for a second or touching on europe -- >> even more boring. >> because i'm quite looking forward to next year and i'm looking forward to hoping that we're not...
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bradford he was the first african america meal after the san francisco sheriff's department and he was born in blight california and came to san francisco in 1955 he seived regularly in the united states army and korean war and is the father of three children two sons and one dear and i send my condole lenses out to his family he was one of my sunday schoolteachers growing up and brang donuts holes to class and making the subject matter very interesting and enjoyable and i grew up with his grandchildren and it's a great loss that san francisco has suffered in losing mr. bradford and so iggs again colleagues i hope to close out the board in his memory and this is the memory of mr. bradford. >> thank you ms. cohen. mr. chu. >>? mr. campos, thank you mr. clerk i have a numb of number of items and the first is authorizing the-off real estate for 17th and folsome street park project and i also have a memoriam for man we will spain rod drying guess and he was one of the district's most colorful andby loved artist and is with robert crumb influenced generations of cartoonists and not only in
bradford he was the first african america meal after the san francisco sheriff's department and he was born in blight california and came to san francisco in 1955 he seived regularly in the united states army and korean war and is the father of three children two sons and one dear and i send my condole lenses out to his family he was one of my sunday schoolteachers growing up and brang donuts holes to class and making the subject matter very interesting and enjoyable and i grew up with his...
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black slaves, 450,000. >> who were responsible for bringing the black slaves to america? >> a lot of people. a lot of people who regretted that they had. a lot of the merchants were quakers bringing slaves in. and then there would not do that after a certain point. in the beginning they were. the british and the french had the largest organized slave trade. a lot of people in the colonies were slave traders, too, but there were nominally british of the time. >> how many other countries had people, forces, military in and around the colonies? >> the spanish were present in the caribbean and west of the mississippi. all the way down into mexico. the spanish were a presence essentially on the southern frontier of the colonies. the french had been kicked out of north america in 1763 after the french and indian war. while there were a lot, number of french people were living in canada and in the great lakes area. but france was not much of a presence. that is why the french were so anxious to cause trouble for the british and help the colonies by sending the money and ammuniti
black slaves, 450,000. >> who were responsible for bringing the black slaves to america? >> a lot of people. a lot of people who regretted that they had. a lot of the merchants were quakers bringing slaves in. and then there would not do that after a certain point. in the beginning they were. the british and the french had the largest organized slave trade. a lot of people in the colonies were slave traders, too, but there were nominally british of the time. >> how many other...